Other Minds Special Programs ➔ Other Minds Presents: Solo for Voice 58: 18 Microtonal Ragas, 2 of 4

Digital Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

Other Minds

Identifier

OMP.2007.11.02.c1.B

Program Series

Other Minds Presents

Program Length

72 min

Part

2 of 4

Dates

| broadcast
| 2007-11-02 | created

Description

Nearly forty years after John Cage composed, “Solo for Voice 58”, an indeterminate work consisting of 18 separate parts, it finds its ideal interpreter in Italian-born dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni. The first performer to prepare the full 18 microtonal ragas for a major performance, Cuni executes microtonal melodies in five different languages with stunning ease. On November 2, 2007, Other Minds, presented the American premiere of this iconoclastic interpretation at a concert in Berkeley California. Two basic concepts are embodied in Cuni’s realization of the complete “Solo for Voice 58”: the meaning of raga, which is “to color the mind”, and chance operations, a favorite tool of John Cage. Following Cage’s own instructions, other selections from his “Song Books” (1970) have been integrated and superimposed as part of the “18 Microtonal Ragas”

Genres

New music
Microtonal music

Musical Selections

Solo for Voice 58: 18 Microtonal Ragas [part 2: from “Song Books”] (1970 (14:39) / John Cage

detailed listing: Raga 3 [text consists of names of constellations and cities from the first page of “Solo for Voice 72”] ; Raga 5 [text from “Winter Lake” by Amelia Cuni]

Performers

Amelia Cuni, dhrupad vocals
Werner Durand, drones & electronics
Raymond Kaczynski, percussion
Federico Sanesi, percussion

Subjects

New music
Microtonal music
Vocalises
Songs with electronics
Songs with percussion
Aleatory music

Related Event

Other Minds Presents: Solo for Voice 58: 18 Microtonal Ragas

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Other Minds (Organization)
Cage, John
Cuni, Amelia
Durand, Werner
Kaczynski, Raymond
Sanesi, Federico